9 foot table room size 34x13
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13 feet minus 4.5 feet = 8.5 feet
8.5 feet / 2 = 4.25 feet or 51 inches per a side between the wall and the rail.
The average length of a normal cue is 58 inches, so any ball 7 inches from the rail or closer you are either jacking up, have zero backstroke, or you are getting out a short cue to make the shot.
It would kind of suck.
8.5 feet / 2 = 4.25 feet or 51 inches per a side between the wall and the rail.
The average length of a normal cue is 58 inches, so any ball 7 inches from the rail or closer you are either jacking up, have zero backstroke, or you are getting out a short cue to make the shot.
It would kind of suck.
You maybe a little cramped on the side rails if your stuck on them with a straight shot depending on your cue length. I personally like a full draw with no worries of hitting anything.
This may help a little.
http://www.brunswickbilliards.com/helpful_information/room_size_requirements.html
This may help a little.
http://www.brunswickbilliards.com/helpful_information/room_size_requirements.html
Even 14x18 seems a bit tight for a nine footer....
To the OP: You're stuck. Look for another room or a new house!
My feeling as well. I have a large 8' in a room 22' x 14'2" and it's a little snug feeling. Maybe for practice only it might work, but i cant see you enjoying playing on it.
I put $2k into my room to get it that size (with me doing 95% of the work) and it was well worth it. Do what you can to make the room bigger. Even a 7 footer seems like it would be a tight squeeze in a 13' room.
I think you need at least 15x20 to make it an adequate room with no impediments.
If I had nowhere else to put a 9' table and had no way to somehow widen that 13' room, here's what I'd do.
I'd stick with the 9-footer rather than getting a smaller table, and I'd place it off-center in the room. I'd place one of the long sides of the table so the edge of the cushion (edge of the 50" wide playing surface) is 66" from the wall. That will put the opposite cushion edge just 40" from the other side wall. 66" + 50" + 40" = 156" = 13'.
That will give you full-cue/full-backswing access to three sides of the table plus some shots on the fourth side. For shots where a full cue could not be used on that fourth side, you could use a shorter cue.
Obviously, this is not ideal, and may even sound kind of crazy. But I think I'd find it plenty acceptable for the way I use a home table, which is for practice more than for playing games with other people. With the full use of three sides, you would have no limitation on the types of shots you could practice.
You're lucky to have the 9' GC IV. I'd want to use that to better my game regardless of any room limitations. Good luck, whatever you do.
I'd stick with the 9-footer rather than getting a smaller table, and I'd place it off-center in the room. I'd place one of the long sides of the table so the edge of the cushion (edge of the 50" wide playing surface) is 66" from the wall. That will put the opposite cushion edge just 40" from the other side wall. 66" + 50" + 40" = 156" = 13'.
That will give you full-cue/full-backswing access to three sides of the table plus some shots on the fourth side. For shots where a full cue could not be used on that fourth side, you could use a shorter cue.
Obviously, this is not ideal, and may even sound kind of crazy. But I think I'd find it plenty acceptable for the way I use a home table, which is for practice more than for playing games with other people. With the full use of three sides, you would have no limitation on the types of shots you could practice.
You're lucky to have the 9' GC IV. I'd want to use that to better my game regardless of any room limitations. Good luck, whatever you do.
Find the true outside dimensions of the table, add fifty eight inches from each side and you have your dimnensions, I prefer sixty inches.
You don't have to add it to the outside dimensions since you can cue over the outside. You need to add to the playing dimensions 100"x50".
Exactly, I had gotten a pamphlet somewhere that said 14'7" x 19'2"" or something like that for a 9' with standard langth cues. I used this when I was looking to buy my current house. If the house listing gave room dimensions I could save myself a trip if it didn't have a room at least that large. For those listings that didn't give room dimensions, I took my tape measure with me to every prospective new house. The real estate agent started getting a little annoyed because there were several houses that might have worked but the "pool room" was a little too narrow. So sorry, that's how it was. We started going directly to whatever room I thought might work for the pool table so I could measure it and we wouldn't waste time looking at the rest of the house first.
I did find 13' wide is a very common dimension. We had requirements for a 2 car garage, a nice kitchen, 2 or 3 bedrooms, and a good room to accomodate the 9' pool table. The pool table requirement was the hardest to meet. But eventually we found it.
I guess my point is you really should have thought of all this BEFORE you bought the house, but now that you have, if you can't do anything to widen the room you're just going to need to buy a short cue for shots from the side rails.
room size
I like the post from ATLARGE if you want to use this table for practice his option of turning the table gives you unrestricted stroke on over 50% another option is the living room. I don't know the family situation so that might be a problem but the smaller room could be for tv viewing.
I like the post from ATLARGE if you want to use this table for practice his option of turning the table gives you unrestricted stroke on over 50% another option is the living room. I don't know the family situation so that might be a problem but the smaller room could be for tv viewing.
This right here. You need a min of 14.5 ft across
The room is too narrow for a 9 footer. You won't be happy with the width of the room for a 9 footer. Expand, or enlarge the width of the room.
10 rule
Someone told me to add 10 to table size, that was room size needed for comfortable play.
Someone told me to add 10 to table size, that was room size needed for comfortable play.